Leonard Nimoy & Pharrell Williams: Star Trek & Creating Spock | ARTST TLK (2013)

Very sad news about Leonard Nimoy. Such a legend in his own time. Fantastic actor, director and artist. He will be missed.

Here's a great interview with Leonard from 2013 where he talks about his life, developing Spock's character and filmmaking.

Bear Animation Test: Aaron Blaise

Also check out more great material on Aaron Blaise's Instagram 

Here is the finished Bear animation I posted a couple of weeks ago now fully inbetweened with all of the dialogue and action smoothed out.  This was animated by hand using TVPaint software on my Wacom Cintiq 24"HD. #animation #2Danimation #handdrawnanimation #traditionalanimation #drawing #bear #character

A video posted by Aaron Blaise (@aaronblaiseart) on Feb 6, 2015 at 5:09am PST

Here I'm giving examples of how squash and stretch, drag, and overlapping action are applied to character animation. This will be part of my upcoming animation tutorial course available soon on my website, CreatureArtTeacher.com #animation #2Danimation #traditionalanimation #bear #drawing #sketch

A video posted by Aaron Blaise (@aaronblaiseart) on Jan 21, 2015 at 8:03am PST

Big Hero 6 | Blu-ray Extra | All Deleted Scenes

Zach Parrish tweeted this yesterday about the Big Hero 6 Blu-Ray Intro: 'Riannon Delanoy is an animation powerhouse!! She animated everything in this piece, including the layout and fx!!'

Inside Sony Pictures Animation - Artist Henry Yu

Make-up Artist Michael Westmore - Anatomy of an Industry

Great lecture by Academy Award winning make-up artist Michael Westmore at UCSB.

RIO2 Animation Explained by Patrick Giusiano

Patrick Giusiano recently posted this great breakdown reel of his work on RIO2. Thanks for the heads up Oz!

Tony Bancroft Lecture at the Academy of Art University (2011)

Great lecture by Tony Bancroft at my old alma mater the Academy of Art University. Starts at 2:32 mark.

The Making of Disney Short Film 'Feast'

How To Train Your Dragon 2: Interview with Director Dean DeBlois

DreamVision Plans $3.5 billion Fort Worth Theme Park and Animation/film Studio

Not sure about this but we'll see what happens!

// The Dreamvision Company

// A lot of questions about promised $3.5 billion Fort Worth theme park, but not many answers via DallasNews

Retrowave: 80's DeLorean Awesomeness

Amazing eye candy by Florian Renner! Love it!

Oscar Winning Editors Explain Good Editing (2015)

Also check out:

// Interview with editor Michael Kahn

A History of Animated Character Design with Larry Lauria

Life Inside Jabba the Hutt / Mini Documentary by Jamie Benning

Great mini doc from Jamie Benning

The Puppets Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop

Boxtrolls VFX Breakdowns

Sponge Out Of Water: Behind the Scenes Animation and Broll Footage

Making The Dam Keeper: Deleted Scene 'Late'

More great vids here: Making The Dam Keeper